Once upon a time … or an old, pre-teen diary!
Here’s a short, “true-ish” story that actually happened about a dozen years ago when I found some of my pre-teen diaries in the attic when we moved. What happened to them is awful. Haha. Read it and see.
The Good News, Here and There
I recently served as a member of my Faith Bible Church missions team to Germany. Five of us went to Berlin to assist a sister church there with their Family Camp in the mountains. There were eight sessions in the morning & evening, and to ensure the adults could attend all of them without distraction,…
Crime to Book to Film – Wow.
My Reading always includes the Bible. Here are several ways you can do it too, in 2025.
NOTE: Last year, I blogged on my daily chronological reading through the Bible (all 366 days) in my “Morning Meditations” blog. Here is the link to 2024’s daily blogs, beginning January 1, 2024, in Genesis 1-3. I plan to do this again in 2025, but I will blog differently, not in daily overviews, but on…
2024 Personal Essay Writing Challenge: Day 1
Write a personal essay each day of the final week of June with the 2024 Personal Essay Challenge. For today’s prompt, write about a work experience. Knickknack, Paddy-whack, Give a Dog a Bone Very early on, when I was nine or ten, I became the chief knickknack duster of our home. My mother, a widow, worked…
JUMP! – A short story
A Short Story by Jackie Houchin I’m standing on the edge of a lookout point on the rim of the Grand Canyon. It’s just before dawn. I can see the sky in the east becoming less black. I’ll have to do it soon. I don’t want to be a spectacle for curious eyes. I just…
Prompt for Today – “The Convenience Store Was A Sad Place”
First, it was downpouring outside, so the floor was wet and muddy from previous customers. It also had a wet-wool smell, either from customers’ drenched coats or that mongrel dog who snuck inside to snatch a low-lying bag of chips before being driven out again. Poor thing. Several florescent lighting tubes were out by the…
A Short (love) Story – Abe’s Lady
A Story of Enduring Love, by Jackie Houchin Fifty years is a long time to love a woman, Abe admitted as he leaned out his window and breathed in the fresh spring air. A lot can happen in that time to cool a man’s passion and make him look for something new. But his love,…
#BLOGANUARY – What is the thing you’re most scared to do? What would it take to get you to do it? – Day 31
#Bloganuary is a month of blog prompts/questons that WordPress uses to get us bloggers off to a good start in the new year. Day 31 – Worse fear? What to do to shake it? My greatest phobia is standing on the edge of things that are high. Such as, the roofs of buildings, the edges of…
#BLOGANUARY – What are FIVE things I do for fun? Day 23
#Bloganuary is a month of blog prompts/questons that WordPress uses to get us bloggers off to a good start in the new year. Day 23 – Five fun things for me to do. That’s easy! 1. Traveling It is fun for me to see and experience and taste new places around the country and the world.…
Words and Reviews 